Group 7

Alicia thought and thought, wondering if her decision was right. She was leaving the people who gave her life. She recalled as her tears rolled down her cheeks. She was quarrelling with her parents over a guy from the motor trade whom she was so devoted to. She left a note to bid farewell and stepped down the stairs as she prepared to elope with the love of her life even with her parents' disapproval.

Wednesday morning at five as the day began, Alicia closed the bedroom door behind her silently, hoping the note that she left behind for her parents would be enough to let them understand her more. She crept downstairs to the kitchen, clutching the handkerchief her mother gave her when she was only nine. Quietly, she turned to the backdoor as she walked reluctantly. Turning the backdoor knob, the creaking sound she would hear every morning was to be heard for the last time. Stepping outside, she was finally free, free from all the disapprovals her parents gave.

Father snored as his wife got up to change into her dressing gown. She picked up the note left on the floor. She broke down and cried as she read her daughter's last letter. Father held her in his arms. She wept as she said: "Daddy! Our baby's gone, how could our daughter do this to me, how could she leave us so thoughtlessly?"

We sacrificed most of our lives. We gave her everything money could buy. She was leaving home after living alone for so many years. She was having fun. Fun is something money could not buy. She was doing something inside that was always denied. We never had a thought for ourselves, we struggled hard through many years to get by. We did not know what we did that was wrong. We never knew we were in the wrong.

Next day, Mother left home at nine to catch the appointment she made with another guy from the motor trade. Poor father was left all alone by his daughter and wife so heartlessly. How could they do that to him, what did he do that was wrong. He was so upset that he suffered from depression and ended in a hospital. Now, nobody's home.

Done by Alicia Kwek (1), Sherynn Ong (16), Goh Bao Sheng (29), Jonathan Koh (33) and Tiu Gabriel (39)